Anhui thorn Treats

[Source] from "Tianmushan drug plant annals."

[Pinyin] ān Huī Cì Huánɡ Bò

[English name] root of Anhwei Barberry

[Alias] Cork, Cork thorns, three-pin

[Source] source based medicine: the Berberidaceae Berberis plant the stems in Anhui.
Latin name of plant and animal fossil: Berberis anhweiensis Ahrendt
Harvesting and storage: the fall harvest stems to leaves, washed and dried.

[Original form] thorn Cork, deciduous shrubs, the high 1-2m. Branchlets slightly angular, old branches dark yellow or brown, a few black warts points, or 3 spines solitary fork length 1.5-3cm. Leaves tufted; handle length 0.5-1cm; blades oval, obovate to ovate elliptic thrift, long 2-6cm, width 1.5-3.5cm, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin jagged barbed-like 15-25, pitch 2-3mm, green above, white below, net pulse obvious. Raceme Ting-sheng, long 3-4cm, flowering 10-20 flowers; yellow flowers, a diameter of about 1cm, perianth 6, the inner wheel base of the petals have two glands; stamens 6, anthers 2 crack; ovary 1 , containing 1-2 pieces of ovules. Berry oval, red, slightly by powder. Flowering from April to July, the fruit of 8-10 months.

[Habitat distribution] ecological environment: Born in the mountain shrub 400m above sea level, river, forest or rock crevices room.
Resource distribution: distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.

[Character] trait identification, stems cylindrical, slightly straight, multi-branching, diameter 1-5mm, of varying lengths. Purchase of surface dark brown or brownish black, with longitudinal wrinkles, acupuncture and more single, thin trigeminal. Hard, easily broken, broken surface fibers pregnant; cross-section of the Department of yellow dough, the Ministry of yellow wood, have a more dense radial texture, hip small, yellow-white. Gas micro-, bitter taste.
With thick stems, yellow sections are better.
Microscopic identification, stem cross-section: cork cork out for more than 10 cells, tightly packed. Cortex is relatively narrow; fiber single scattered, thin wall. Vascular outside the tough, 20-28 ring-type column; phloem narrow; bundle cambium 2-3 rows of cells; xylem development, vessel diameter of up to 50μm, a number of wood fiber, tightly packed. Rays than the straight, wide and 1-7 rows of cells. Medullary diameter of about 1 / 4 by the thin-walled cells, some cells contain calcium oxalate crystals or cubic column.

[] Bitter taste; cold

】 【Go through the liver; stomach; large intestine

【Indications】 heat dampness; Xiehuo detoxification. The main heat dysentery; diarrhea; jaundice; splashing muddy; vaginal discharge; sore; sore throat; red eyes and throat

Dosage Oral: Jian Tang ,10-15g. Topical: the amount, Jianshui Fumigation.

[Excerpt] "Chinese Materia Medica"

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